Person
Selden
Also known as the convict, the Notting Hill murderer, the escaped convict, the Notting Hill criminal.
The escaped convict loose upon Dartmoor as Sir Henry's party drives in, broken out of the prison at Princetown. He is Selden, the Notting Hill murderer, a man of such peculiar ferocity that his death sentence was commuted only on a doubt of his sanity. Warders watch every road and station, and the lonely farmers go in dread of him as he hides somewhere in the burrows of the moor.
Chapter VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
A fortnight passes with no sight or word of him, and the household comes to believe that he has got clean away, to the relief of the scattered moor dwellings.
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
His secret comes out at the Hall. The candle held to a moor-facing window is Mrs. Barrymore's signal, for the convict is her younger brother, fed in hiding by her and Barrymore. Hunted across the moor that night, he hurls a curse and a stone and escapes among the boulders.
Chapter X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Barrymore begs that the police not be told he is still on the moor, since arrangements are afoot to ship him quietly to South America. It is also from Selden that the butler has learned of a second, unknown man living out among the old stone huts.
Chapter XI. The Man on the Tor
Frankland, spying through his rooftop telescope, takes the food-bearing boy he has spotted to be supplying the escaped convict, never guessing that the bundles serve the other hidden man.
Chapter XII. Death on the Moor
A screaming man is run down in the dark and found dead at the foot of the rocks, dressed in Sir Henry's cast-off tweeds. The beard turned up to the moon shows it to be Selden, killed in the baronet's clothes.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
His death is fitted into the full account: the hound, laid on from an old boot of Sir Henry's, ran the convict down because he was wearing the baronet's gift clothing.
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